Keeping Up With DrShawn on Twitter
Social networking web sites have a well earned reputation for their ultra high noise levels. Yet these sites have great potential for serious users who are documenting projects, research and field trips.
The Society for Amateur Scientists hosts a Community Forum for discussing various science topics. Questions and ideas posted on the Forum have generated considerable discussion.
For very fast status reports about ongoing projects, nothing beats Twitter, as SAS founder and Executive Director Shawn Carlson has learned.
If you wonder what Shawn's been up to lately, just follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
To get started, you can browse this string of Shawn's tweets:
Designing LabRats uniforms-Looking for the right combination of safari vest over attractive shirt. Suggestions?
6:23 PM May 24th from web
The first female co-host of LabRats will by none other than my lovely wife Dr. Michelle Carlson. LabRats is now a hubby-wife partnership.
6:15 PM May 24th from web
To help inspire girls to love science, we're adding a female host to the LabRats science education videos.
12:47 AM May 24th from web
Met with Girl Scouts' N. Chicago chapter today to see how LabRats can partner to bring inquiry-based science ed. to the GS. Great meeting!
11:02 PM May 22nd from web
Mark Ely, LabRats' COO, has just recruited a prof. Hollywood animator to assist with our video content. More world-class talent on board!
10:48 PM May 22nd from web
LabRats' graphic designer, Joe Ninni, has developed wonderful business cards and he's improved the design of he LabRats Website. Great stuff
10:30 PM May 22nd from web
Fort Wood, a major military base in MO, wants LabRats for it kids summer camps. Great news. Military endorsement could be very important.
10:07 AM May 21st from web
Videoed first LabRats short using prof. set and cameraman. One science lesson and three puzzles. Learned much. Not there yet. Director?
1:43 PM May 20th from web
Scott May, keyboardist for "Ides of March" (Jim Peterik's current band), has joined the LabRats team. Fantastic talent, wonderful guy!
11:28 PM May 19th from web
Sheldon Greaves, Ph.D. (Hi Sheldon) has agreed to write the LabRats members' handbook. Another essential task in hand.
11:05 AM May 16th from web
We've found a professional musician to write music for the LabRats Science Education Program.
10:54 AM May 16th from web
We've identified our first LabRats Local Coordinator. Wonderful mission-driven man with great public service and organization experience.
12:58 PM May 15th from web
Found experienced NBC cameraman to shoot & edit LabRats instructional vids. He'll help make sure our materials look completely professional.
12:54 PM May 15th from web
Met with CEO of Girl Scouts Greater Chicago an NW Indiana. She loved LabRats. Looks like we'll be educating teen girls together. Exciting!
12:49 PM May 15th from web
Now dividing time between the offices. Love the new schedule. Mornings at SciTech, afternoons and evenings at LabRats. Work day 9AM - 11PM
7:51 AM May 12th from web
LabRats has a new headquarters. Have small studio setup complete with audio and video production capabilities. Shot first video on Sat!
12:11 PM May 11th from web
Latest installment of The Citizen Scientist is available at http://www.sas.org/tcs
12:18 PM May 8th from web
$120k worth of programing has been completed on LabRats website backend. All commerce and data management is in hand. Major Milestone done!
8:29 AM May 8th from web
New LabRats website is in development. This to implement the full program. Check out the new vision at http://www.labratsdev.com/i...
8:23 AM May 8th from web
Just hired Mark Ely to serve as CTO and COO of LabRats. Savant programmer and experienced business leader. Great things are happening!
8:19 AM May 8th from web
Preparing for first Labrats Video shoots as tests of concepts. Will try to do two on Sat-"Positive Feedback" and "Idea Journals"
8:03 AM Apr 17th from web
Re solar report. SciTech has a solar telescope for public view. We clearly observed 2 sun spots a few months ago. Act. is low, not null.
10:19 AM Apr 11th from web
Latest copy of The Citizen Scientist is available at SAS's website: http://www.sas.org/tcs/inde...
9:23 AM Apr 10th from web
Breakthrough in LabRats. New approach structures content how kids organically learn; apprentice-like, not classroom. Solves many problems.
8:06 AM Apr 7th from web
Started writing video scripts for Labrats lessons on soil science. Much more fun than writing the book for Harvard!
3:52 PM Jan 25th from web
SciTech Hands On Museum has a Board Meeting tomorrow night to discuss our plans for 2009. Big things on the horizon, I think.
7:55 PM Jan 20th from web
Met with our Labrats programmer. Man, is this guy good. Test site already has many features I didn't know we needed! More coming soon.
9:08 PM Jan 18th from web
Back after the Rebooting conference. There is now a Labrats CS content team, recruited at the summit. Great CS content to come.
3:59 PM Jan 18th from web
First day at Rebooting conference was very interesting. Some great people here. Looking forward to day two.
11:32 PM Jan 12th from web
Wanted to meet an AI expert and guess who was sitting next to me on the plane. Another rebooter who also happened to be an AI expert. Karma!
1:13 AM Jan 12th from web
I'm off to the Rebooting Computing conference in Silicon Valley. Some very smart people on the listserv. Optimistic this will be productive
7:50 AM Jan 11th from web
Solved key prob. with my book today, no thanks to my editor at Harvard. We seem to have different views, but it's my name on the jacket...
10:54 PM Jan 10th from web
Next time you get rejected for a job, try this: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/...
11:09 PM Jan 9th from web
Labrats vids issues being knocked down. Filming, editing in hand. Writing under way. Set being designed. Delivery program in development.
11:06 PM Jan 9th from web
Have master Web programmer working on the final Labrats website. Membership auth, video downloads, ecommerce, and more. This guy's good!
12:15 PM Jan 9th from web
I've decided to change the Labrats slogan, "Data over dogma," to "Data First!" for reasons explained earlier.
12:11 PM Jan 9th from web
Greg: Dogma is not negative. But "Data before dogma" still has "dogma" in it, and kids don't understand that word. I want to avoid it.
5:13 PM Jan 8th from web
From DeloitteCanada: Using microbes to turn coal into methane is cool AND green. http://tinyurl.com/7tevr
1:48 PM Jan 8th from web
Re "Data Over Dogma". Many kids don't know "dogma." Thinking of using "Data first!" or "Data always wins" as tagline in Labrats. Thoughts?
1:21 PM Jan 8th from web
From Susan Gerhart: Here's a movement to change the face of computing: Ada Lovelace Day, March 24 http://www.pledgebank.com/A...
1:15 PM Jan 8th from web
When does one become a scientist? When one accepts the principle of "Data over dogma." When data and belief conflict, data must always win.
4:40 AM Jan 8th from web
Why aren't kids natural scientists? Because doing science is about making sure you aren't fooling yourself. Not natural. It must be learned.
11:43 AM Jan 7th from web
"Top Gear" guy on why kids are natural born scientists. Thye aren't, but a good read none the less. http://tinyurl.com/8nf22u
11:41 AM Jan 7th from web
New HEASARC (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ for info) software is available. http://tinyurl.com/77364l
11:38 AM Jan 7th from web
SciCheer-Please say hello to Saul Pearlmutter for me at your event on 1/30. We used to work together. He will win the Nobel for dark energy.
1:15 AM Jan 7th from web
Met with Congressman Bill Foster and city officials to see if we can get stimulus money for our Planetarium project. Fingers crossed!
2:48 PM Jan 6th from web
Definition: Doing science is all about making sure you aren't fooling yourself. (Let that sink in for a second.)
11:30 PM Jan 5th from web
Definition: Science is everything we know about the physical universe and how we know it. Facts and process.
11:28 PM Jan 5th from web
Here's an attempt to make heroes of great scientists by creating trading cards with their pics. Interesting. http://www.geekstack.com
2:17 PM Jan 5th from web
Next week I'll be at the Rebooting Computing confer. in Silicon Valley. How to make kids love CS? Ideas? http://www.rebootingcomputi...
10:06 PM Jan 4th from web
Michelle and I completed a rewrite of the instructions for our new microbiology kit today. Best of our kits, I think. http://www.scifair.org
9:56 PM Jan 4th from web
I know how to organize Labrats videos that we will start producing this month. Nesting and interlinking was a fundamental prob. Now solved.
9:07 AM Jan 4th from web
I finally completed the manuscript for my book and submitted it to my pub Harvard Univ. Press on Dec 31. Happy New Year! Now onto Labrats!
9:32 PM Jan 3rd from web
I went to the Shed Aquarium today for the first time. Definitely have "museum envy." Wish SciTech was supported by the Park District too!
4:22 PM Jan 3rd from web
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